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Jane Austen, actress create PBS costume drama diversity

LOS ANGELES - Crystal Clarke could imagine herself playing the heroine of a period costume drama, a genre that regularly makes its way to TV and film screens with potential breakout roles for young ac...

Feb 04, 2020

Service set for members of family who died with Kobe Bryant

LOS ANGELES - A public memorial has been announced for three members of a family who died along with Kobe Bryant and others when a helicopter crashed in foggy weather last month outside Los Angeles. T...

Feb 04, 2020

Package labeled 'Bag Full of Drugs' leads to Florida arrests

MIAMI - Two men charged with drug trafficking could have done a better job hiding their wares than using a package labeled "Bag Full of Drugs," Florida authorities said. Ian Simmons and Joshua Reinhar...

Feb 04, 2020

Making Oscar history, 'Honeyland' shatters borders

NEW YORK - Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska were in a hard-to-reach area of Northern Macedonia - about as far from the Oscars as possible - when they came upon the beekeeper who would be their su...

Feb 04, 2020

Brother of Manchester Arena bomber goes on trial for murder

LONDON - The younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester is just as guilty as the attacker, a British prosecutor said Tuesday, as the surviving...

Feb 04, 2020

Abu Dhabi's long-troubled Etihad sells 38 planes for $1B

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi's long-troubled Etihad Airways said Tuesday it would sell 38 aircraft to an investment firm and a leasing company in a deal valued at $1 billion, the latest cos...

Feb 04, 2020

Best picture '1917' is big winner at British Academy Awards

LONDON - Gut-wrenching World War I epic "1917" was the big winner at Sunday's British Academy Film Awards, winning seven prizes including best picture and best director. Sam Mendes' drama about one of...

Feb 04, 2020

Top films were more diverse than ever before, study finds

NEW YORK - Hollywood's awards season may not show it, but the most popular films are increasingly diverse, a new study finds. According to new research released Tuesday by the University of Southern C...

Feb 04, 2020

Official: 2nd student dies after truck hits Oklahoma runners

MOORE, Okla. - A second suburban Oklahoma City high school student has died after a group of cross-country runners was struck by a pickup truck, a school official said Tuesday. Dustin Horstkoetter, di...

Feb 04, 2020

Man wearing fake bomb stabs 2 in London and is shot to death

LONDON - A man recently released from prison after serving time for terrorism-related offences strapped on a fake bomb and stabbed two people on a busy London street Sunday before being shot to death ...

Feb 04, 2020